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PAGE two Southern California page three
Beatniks, Bullfighting Come On Campus
DAI LYi TROJAN
Poltry Teaching Force Plagues Colleges
VOL. L LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1959 NO. 90
Board To Vote on Eligibility Today
Topping Accepts Post As Host of Songfest Spring Extravaganza
Bv JOE JARES Daily Trojan .Managing Editor
Dr. Norman Topping, president of the university, has accepted the post of official host for Songfest, the SC student body’s song extravaganza in the Hollywood Bowl, scheduled for Saturday night, May 16*.
Selection as the official host ; '
Barnes, Evans Ask for Special Protest' Meeting To Decide Eligibility Rule
for Songfest. the largest collegiate musical in America, is the h.criiest honor SC students can bestow upon a member of the facultv or administration.
Comm ittpp Chairman Jim Stewart said. "Dr. Toppings pi-escnce will certainly add to our show, and we could think of no better wav to honor him on the comoletion of his first year at the helm.’’
The official host acts as master of ceremonies, welcoming the audience, and introduces the numerous acts, besides helping to provide continuity and Personality to the entire production.
Previous Hosts
SC Apothecary Offers Trojans Tablets, Cures
By MIKE ROBINSON
One of the most colorful departments on campus is the University Dispensary, which offers all of the popular items sold in pharmacies at a 10 per cent student discount.
Located in Sc. 102. the dispensary is a great splash of colored bottles, boxes and labels. In-Last year's host was Dr. Rob- eluded in its stock are tranqui-ert Craig, professor of business lizers. wonder-drugs, pills . . . administration in 1he School of hut don’t dare ask for a “pill” Commerce since 1942. In addi- or a “tranquilizer” or “wonder-1ion to being a member of the drug.”
California Bar Association and General Terms
an active Republican, he is an If a brazen individual should
happen to let one of these general terms slip while in the presence of co-manager Ronald Woj-nas. he is liable to be severely reprimanded.
Trained to be specific. Wojnas is against general terms. “A pill,” he explains, “is a round-object. a tablet is flat and a capsule is oblong.” Is Wojnas overdoing it? A mistake in asking for a capsule when a pill is meant or vice-versa has often caused deaths.
Everything Poison Strange as it may seem. Woj-r.as includes “poison” in his list of generalizations. He says that “a poison can bp anything. Even water is poison.”
Explaining this statement, he said lhat although a poison is usually considered a toxic substance which can kill in relatively small doses, anything taken in excess can kill a person and therefore be called “poison."
Many people who become impatient if they do not get their prescription filled immediately probably do not realize that except for the co-managers Woj-nas and Dr. John W. Berger, all of the men behind the counter are students.
SONGFEST HOST — Songfest committee members Jane Kiel (left) and Linda Hickey (right) show Dr. Norman Topping last year's Songfest record album. Dr. Topping
Daily Trojan Photo by Mika Robinson
has accepted the post of official host for the big event in the Hollywood Bowl. Last year's official host was Dr. Robert Craig of the School of Commerce
Dr. Dockson Offers Method To Defeat Depression Blues
avialion research expert and the ou ner of an engineering company in Los Angeles.
Rack in 1957. Dr. Robert Gordon. then the counselor of men, was the host; preceded by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid. well-known expert on international relations and chancellor of the university. Dr. Albert S. Rau-benheimer. educational vice president : and Dr. Bernard Hvink. then the schools dean of students.
<iucst Conductor
In addition to selection an official host each year to act as master of ceremonies, the Songfest Committee also selects a guest conductor. La^t year’s conducto’- was I^es Bf»xter. This years conductor will be announced at a later date.
Dr Topning. who will be seeing h;s first Songfest from a participant's angle, came to the University last September from Hi? Universitv of Pennsylvania. Ho was vice president in charge of medical affairs, a post that h^d command of a bigger budget than SC's entire budget. He is a noted researcher in thp medical fiHd. as well as being an educator.
We now have the knowhow to prevent a disastrous depres-i sion as well as runaway infla-; tion, Dr. Robert R. Dockson, dean-elect of the SC School of Commerce told the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, at the Biltmore Hotel, Friday.
“Because we are a democracy, we will be slow in applying our knowledge and thus <->ur total output will not always be at the peak nor will prices always be held at the same level,” he said.
High Living
Dr. Dockson pointed out that our rate of growth might He somewhat less than Russia's, but he also said it was a “small and inconsequential'’ price to pay for an economv that offers us the highest living standard in the world, and at the same time, a degree of freedom unequalled in any other country.
He pointed out that by 1975 the U. S. will have more people than currently live in Great Britain and Canada, creating a population total between 214 and 1 244 million.
“An increase of this magnitude cannot help but mean a tremendous rise in business activity,” he said.
Consulting Economist Dr. Dockson, who is also a consulting economist for the Union Bank of Los Angeles, said the future is bright for real estate because of this tremendous rise in population.
This future population will need housing, schools, hospitals, government, business and service buildings of all kinds.
The economic environment of the future is expansionary and this is bound to have an important effcct upon real estate.
Periodic Down Turns He added that individual communities and industries are certain to suffer from periodic down turs resulting from overexpansion or over-production, but the nation as a whole will tend towards an ever higher level of output.
“Periods of over-all decline will be temporary and need not reach catastrophic proportions,” he said, “thus, the short term forces affecting real estate wdll be operating around a long term
Skier Snyder Slips on Sleety Slope; Muscles and Morale Twisted in Fall
Dailv Trojan Photo bv Bob Holst*
KRATKA CASUALTY—Dr. William Snyder along with a siuaent examine the philosophy professor's ski wounds that were incurred last weekend. Dr. Snyder twisted his ankle and patella after falling victim to the skiers' "achilles heel."
“I’ll ski again—but I’ll ski scared!” laments Dr. William S. Snyder, assistant professor of philosophy.
His second attempt at the snow sport last week gave him a three-fold legacy: sprained ankle, twisted knee and 10 days on crutches.
Mourns Mutilation Casting a mournful glance at his mutilated right leg, Dr. Snyder related the perilous consequences of his Kra-ta Point trip on Thursday.
“It was a combination of factors that caused the calamity,” he recalled. “And what a combination — icy conditions, lack of ability and. that Achilles heel of even the most experienced skier, the mogul..”
Ski-Slang The mogul, he explained, is ski-slang for “bump.” “To elucidate,” he continued, “I couldn’t handle myself on the sleety slope. I took a turn too fast. I went head over heels, wounding my ankle, my knees and confidence in my skiing prowess.”
Returns Here Only slightly incapacitated, he returned to school Friday to deliver philosophy lectures to his classes In Mudd Hall, the School of Philosophy.
“I have an MG but I can’t use it now,” said Dr. Snyder, who is borrowing a car with
automatic shift during his convalescence.
Try, Try Again Asked if he plans to visit the slopes again, he replied valiantly. “Yes! I fully in-| tend to try it again in the fall.” Hedonism, Stoicism, humanism or perhaps the more current existentialism: j it is a moot point which of ) these philosophies imbued him with the courage to “give it another try.”
His outlook is a rational one. In the future, he de-i clares, he will have considerably more respect for the disaster that can be wrought by “those little sticks of wood.”
Federal Service Recruits Students
Gov ernment representatives will be on campus tomorrow to interview students interested in the Federal Service.
Frank Mason, district manager of the Los Angeles Social j | Security office, says that Congress recently permitted hiring graduates who have a “B” average. or are in the upper one-fourth of their class, at w'ages beginning at $415 a month. The recent figure was $336 which is the usual Federal starting salary for college graduates.
The team of Federal interviewers will l>e available for consultation at Ihe University Employment Bureau from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
upward trend.”
“A balanced economic growth pattern is far more important than a trend line as steep or steeper than Russia’s,” he said.
The economist said an annual net increase in households of about one million per year could be expected betw'een now and 1970.
Dancing Coed Glories Greek Muse in Show
The first creative performance master's thesis in dance in the history of SC will be presented by Mary Tiffany. She is a gard-uate student and instructor in dance for the physical education department.
Miss Tiffany will set a precedent at this university on April 30, when she and her assistants bring a half-hour prodtiction entitled “Sappho” to the Bovard stage.
Rehearsing Now
Now in rehearsal, the production is based upon the poetry fragments of Sappho, one of the first poetesses of the archaic period of Greece. Her thesis problem is to project and comment on the woman Sappho and to extend the experience of this great poetess through movement, drama, poetry, and music.
Miss Tiffany’s thesis guidance committee is composed of Dr. Lois Ellfelt end Dr. Eleanor Metheny, professors of physical education and John Blankenchip, assistant professor of drama.
Dance Expressions “It takes much more organization, planning and creative energy to express something in dance rather than words,” Dr. Ellfelt said. “And ideas must be conveyed through movement that have remained unsaid in any other medium.”
In addition to performing her thesis. Miss Tiffany will write out the script of “Sappho” for permanent record in the library, and has arranged to have the entire production filmed by the cinema denartment.
Uses Realism The program will be a combination of dance, music and drama. Using both realism and abstractionism, the poetry fragments in seven scenes with a prologue and epilogue, will be related to the scenes of Dawn, Love as Passionate Love. Lullaby to Her Little Girl. Hymn to Aphrodite, Indecision. Friendship and Frustrations of Age.
An accomplished and sensitive dancer in her own right, Miss Tiffany will portray the title role, and will include nine other women in her production, symbolically representing the nine muses. Sappho has been considered the tenth muse. Four of the nine women will form a Greek-style speaking chorus and the other five will dance.
A special ASSC Board of Protest meeting will be held at noon today to determine the constitutionality of last week's decision giving electoral eligibility to two grade-point deficient ASSC candidates, Wayne Warge and Ted Schmidt.
Senator-at-Large Dayle Barnes and Knight Gary Evans accused the committee on Friday of illegally deciding in favor of the two political aspirants. Today ' the board may either reverse or j affirm their previous decision.
The entire controversay rests \ on the fact that Warga. a senior class presidential hopeful, has a cumulative grade shortage and
Schmidt, international relations president candidate, has a grade average below 2.5 from the last semester.
Grade Minimum
Article V, Section 3 of the A-SSC Constitution says that all candidates for ASSC offices must have a eulmulative average of at least 2.5 and at least a 2.5 average for all units completed in the semester preceding the ASSC election semester in which they are candidates.
This means that in all work ; completed at SC both candidates must have an average of at least
2.5 and must have achieved a
2.5 last semester.
Both Warga and Schmidt fall below this minimum under one , of its provisions.
Senator Barnes, who is also a ! candidate for senior class presi-: dent, said that he was in an awkward position but this Board of Protest ruling goes beyond mere personalities.
Devious Prescedent
“The Board has overstepped j their limits,” he said, “for anv-; one who does not have a scholarship average of at least 2.5 should not be allowed to run for office.
“This year's Board is setting a devious prescedent.” he continued. “It is allowing people to carry on their political activities in conflict with the ASSC Constitution.
Asks Reversal
“Since this decision. I am sure that the members of the Board have read their constitution and
a re-vote is now in order,” he sneered.
Evans, who wrote the official letter asking for a reversal of the decision, changed his mind as to the seriousness of the matter when the Board of Protest informed him that they had added the stipulation that both candidates must attain a 2.5 average before they could resume office.
Further Violation
Although Evans seemed satisfied enough. Barnes claimed that this was further violation of the constitution and should be reconsidered.
President Scott Fitz Radolph. an ex-officio member of the board, made the point that the Board of Protest does not have to explain their actions to anyone but the Senate.” he said.
First Crisis
This key protest to the Board's decision marks the first major election crisis this year. Today's meeting will decide whether or not Barnes’ protest will be held
valid.
The Board members: Juanita Sakajian. elections comissioner; Mike Donahue, sena^or-at-large and chairman: Kathy Niemeyer, AWS president; Mardythe O'Mara. ASSC vice president; and Larry Litchy. senator-at-large: will vote on the “constitutionality” of the matter today.
Dud Johnson, activity advisor, said that the decision of the Board would be final, needing only the approval of the Senate for final authority.
Protests Objection
Warga. one of the candidates in the dispute said. “I petitioned my grades because my cumulative shortage was one-tenth below that required by the ASSC Constitution. I was given letters from Dr. Gordon and Mr. John McCoy, head of the Journalism School, attesting to my abilities and participation in school activities. I see no reason why there should be any objection to the decision of the Board of Protest.”
Dr. CantrilTo Continue Psychology Lectures
Dr. Hadley Cantril. the Princeton psychologist who last week told SC faculty why Russian civilians are friendly to American visitors, will speak tonight at 8 in 133 FH.
As a result of his mass psychology study. Dr. Cantril discovered that Russians are friendly to American visitors because they want to know more about U.S. living standards.
Form Respect Dr. Cantril. head of the Institute for International Research at Princeton University, said that Russians have been so impressed with the Soviet’s slogan. ‘catch up with and exceed the standards of living in America.’ that their desires to do so invariably spill over and take the form of respect for Americans who have achieved them.
“They are also curious to know whether or not Russia has caught up with American stand-
ards and. if not, just how far behind they are. This desire to equal Americans has proved a
freat bond between the state nd the people.” he declared. “The problem of the Soviet government is to keep up with the people and to maintain a sense of enthusiasm, which is almost a childish pride, open and unabashed.” he said.
Popular Enthusiasm “Our studies also show that English is chosen by students in Russia at a ratio of our to one over any other.” he revealed.
In spite of such popular enthusiasm. the speaker found a difinite realization that the state may crack down on individuals at any time. They seem to feel that they are no longer controlled by terror but only by fear.
The Princeton scientist, sponsored by the Haynes Foundation, will lecture at SC again on Wednesday and Thursday.
Nina Foch Praises Failures as Actor's Best Friend in Speech
By BOB (¡OLD
Failure w'as called an actor's best friend when Nina Foch, stage, screen and television star, spoke to members of SC's drama department .Friday, on what is an actor?”
“Too many performers are afraid to try something new,” she said, “after they have found something the public’s accepted, something they call safe. When they get over this and ‘dare’ to try something new, then they become a true artist.” Speaking in Stop Gap Theatre, Miss Foch referred to a “good actor” as someone who lias “guts.” “When they’ve got this,” she continued, “they can take criticism, even failure, and learn a lesson from it.”
Difficult Art “We have chosen a difficult profession, more difficult than most for many reasons,” she continued. “There is the very obvious one of too many people for too few jobs, which we have all had drummed into our ears by the people who care about welfare.
Miss Foch said an actor is not a “personality.” A person with some particular trait or mannerism may at one time hold an audience by it. the actress claimed. but it is not something a person can capitalize on.
Mystical Qualities “When an actor of this type | gets turned down,” she declared, “he, himself, is turned down. Also. there is no opportunity to develop this mystical thing, and like all natural assets, you cannot guarantee that it will appear on demand.
“An actor is the person who can forget the talent or ability he possesses. These two traits,” Miss Foch asserted, ‘‘are only I seen by the spectator. Reading any seven critics writing about the same actor will bear this out.
“An actor accepts the possibility that he has talent and personality and goes on to the more important matters of his profession that are under control,” Miss Foch maintained.
Various techniques, speech methods, manners of moving, dancing, singing and dressing
were named among his profes-j sion.
I - Objective understanding and ' the ability to see a play in “the play s meanings and not in the actor's personal views'’ were also cited as necessary skills for | an artist.
(Continued on Page 2)
STOP GAP GUEST—Miss Nina Foch, addressing students
Friday afternoon said that failure is an actor's best friend. Miss Foch, in her speech "What Is an Actor?" fold drama students that "Too many performers are afraid to try something new." When they get over this, they will become a "true artist."

PAGE two Southern California page three
Beatniks, Bullfighting Come On Campus
DAI LYi TROJAN
Poltry Teaching Force Plagues Colleges
VOL. L LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1959 NO. 90
Board To Vote on Eligibility Today
Topping Accepts Post As Host of Songfest Spring Extravaganza
Bv JOE JARES Daily Trojan .Managing Editor
Dr. Norman Topping, president of the university, has accepted the post of official host for Songfest, the SC student body’s song extravaganza in the Hollywood Bowl, scheduled for Saturday night, May 16*.
Selection as the official host ; '
Barnes, Evans Ask for Special Protest' Meeting To Decide Eligibility Rule
for Songfest. the largest collegiate musical in America, is the h.criiest honor SC students can bestow upon a member of the facultv or administration.
Comm ittpp Chairman Jim Stewart said. "Dr. Toppings pi-escnce will certainly add to our show, and we could think of no better wav to honor him on the comoletion of his first year at the helm.’’
The official host acts as master of ceremonies, welcoming the audience, and introduces the numerous acts, besides helping to provide continuity and Personality to the entire production.
Previous Hosts
SC Apothecary Offers Trojans Tablets, Cures
By MIKE ROBINSON
One of the most colorful departments on campus is the University Dispensary, which offers all of the popular items sold in pharmacies at a 10 per cent student discount.
Located in Sc. 102. the dispensary is a great splash of colored bottles, boxes and labels. In-Last year's host was Dr. Rob- eluded in its stock are tranqui-ert Craig, professor of business lizers. wonder-drugs, pills . . . administration in 1he School of hut don’t dare ask for a “pill” Commerce since 1942. In addi- or a “tranquilizer” or “wonder-1ion to being a member of the drug.”
California Bar Association and General Terms
an active Republican, he is an If a brazen individual should
happen to let one of these general terms slip while in the presence of co-manager Ronald Woj-nas. he is liable to be severely reprimanded.
Trained to be specific. Wojnas is against general terms. “A pill,” he explains, “is a round-object. a tablet is flat and a capsule is oblong.” Is Wojnas overdoing it? A mistake in asking for a capsule when a pill is meant or vice-versa has often caused deaths.
Everything Poison Strange as it may seem. Woj-r.as includes “poison” in his list of generalizations. He says that “a poison can bp anything. Even water is poison.”
Explaining this statement, he said lhat although a poison is usually considered a toxic substance which can kill in relatively small doses, anything taken in excess can kill a person and therefore be called “poison."
Many people who become impatient if they do not get their prescription filled immediately probably do not realize that except for the co-managers Woj-nas and Dr. John W. Berger, all of the men behind the counter are students.
SONGFEST HOST — Songfest committee members Jane Kiel (left) and Linda Hickey (right) show Dr. Norman Topping last year's Songfest record album. Dr. Topping
Daily Trojan Photo by Mika Robinson
has accepted the post of official host for the big event in the Hollywood Bowl. Last year's official host was Dr. Robert Craig of the School of Commerce
Dr. Dockson Offers Method To Defeat Depression Blues
avialion research expert and the ou ner of an engineering company in Los Angeles.
Rack in 1957. Dr. Robert Gordon. then the counselor of men, was the host; preceded by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid. well-known expert on international relations and chancellor of the university. Dr. Albert S. Rau-benheimer. educational vice president : and Dr. Bernard Hvink. then the schools dean of students.
ur total output will not always be at the peak nor will prices always be held at the same level,” he said.
High Living
Dr. Dockson pointed out that our rate of growth might He somewhat less than Russia's, but he also said it was a “small and inconsequential'’ price to pay for an economv that offers us the highest living standard in the world, and at the same time, a degree of freedom unequalled in any other country.
He pointed out that by 1975 the U. S. will have more people than currently live in Great Britain and Canada, creating a population total between 214 and 1 244 million.
“An increase of this magnitude cannot help but mean a tremendous rise in business activity,” he said.
Consulting Economist Dr. Dockson, who is also a consulting economist for the Union Bank of Los Angeles, said the future is bright for real estate because of this tremendous rise in population.
This future population will need housing, schools, hospitals, government, business and service buildings of all kinds.
The economic environment of the future is expansionary and this is bound to have an important effcct upon real estate.
Periodic Down Turns He added that individual communities and industries are certain to suffer from periodic down turs resulting from overexpansion or over-production, but the nation as a whole will tend towards an ever higher level of output.
“Periods of over-all decline will be temporary and need not reach catastrophic proportions,” he said, “thus, the short term forces affecting real estate wdll be operating around a long term
Skier Snyder Slips on Sleety Slope; Muscles and Morale Twisted in Fall
Dailv Trojan Photo bv Bob Holst*
KRATKA CASUALTY—Dr. William Snyder along with a siuaent examine the philosophy professor's ski wounds that were incurred last weekend. Dr. Snyder twisted his ankle and patella after falling victim to the skiers' "achilles heel."
“I’ll ski again—but I’ll ski scared!” laments Dr. William S. Snyder, assistant professor of philosophy.
His second attempt at the snow sport last week gave him a three-fold legacy: sprained ankle, twisted knee and 10 days on crutches.
Mourns Mutilation Casting a mournful glance at his mutilated right leg, Dr. Snyder related the perilous consequences of his Kra-ta Point trip on Thursday.
“It was a combination of factors that caused the calamity,” he recalled. “And what a combination — icy conditions, lack of ability and. that Achilles heel of even the most experienced skier, the mogul..”
Ski-Slang The mogul, he explained, is ski-slang for “bump.” “To elucidate,” he continued, “I couldn’t handle myself on the sleety slope. I took a turn too fast. I went head over heels, wounding my ankle, my knees and confidence in my skiing prowess.”
Returns Here Only slightly incapacitated, he returned to school Friday to deliver philosophy lectures to his classes In Mudd Hall, the School of Philosophy.
“I have an MG but I can’t use it now,” said Dr. Snyder, who is borrowing a car with
automatic shift during his convalescence.
Try, Try Again Asked if he plans to visit the slopes again, he replied valiantly. “Yes! I fully in-| tend to try it again in the fall.” Hedonism, Stoicism, humanism or perhaps the more current existentialism: j it is a moot point which of ) these philosophies imbued him with the courage to “give it another try.”
His outlook is a rational one. In the future, he de-i clares, he will have considerably more respect for the disaster that can be wrought by “those little sticks of wood.”
Federal Service Recruits Students
Gov ernment representatives will be on campus tomorrow to interview students interested in the Federal Service.
Frank Mason, district manager of the Los Angeles Social j | Security office, says that Congress recently permitted hiring graduates who have a “B” average. or are in the upper one-fourth of their class, at w'ages beginning at $415 a month. The recent figure was $336 which is the usual Federal starting salary for college graduates.
The team of Federal interviewers will l>e available for consultation at Ihe University Employment Bureau from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
upward trend.”
“A balanced economic growth pattern is far more important than a trend line as steep or steeper than Russia’s,” he said.
The economist said an annual net increase in households of about one million per year could be expected betw'een now and 1970.
Dancing Coed Glories Greek Muse in Show
The first creative performance master's thesis in dance in the history of SC will be presented by Mary Tiffany. She is a gard-uate student and instructor in dance for the physical education department.
Miss Tiffany will set a precedent at this university on April 30, when she and her assistants bring a half-hour prodtiction entitled “Sappho” to the Bovard stage.
Rehearsing Now
Now in rehearsal, the production is based upon the poetry fragments of Sappho, one of the first poetesses of the archaic period of Greece. Her thesis problem is to project and comment on the woman Sappho and to extend the experience of this great poetess through movement, drama, poetry, and music.
Miss Tiffany’s thesis guidance committee is composed of Dr. Lois Ellfelt end Dr. Eleanor Metheny, professors of physical education and John Blankenchip, assistant professor of drama.
Dance Expressions “It takes much more organization, planning and creative energy to express something in dance rather than words,” Dr. Ellfelt said. “And ideas must be conveyed through movement that have remained unsaid in any other medium.”
In addition to performing her thesis. Miss Tiffany will write out the script of “Sappho” for permanent record in the library, and has arranged to have the entire production filmed by the cinema denartment.
Uses Realism The program will be a combination of dance, music and drama. Using both realism and abstractionism, the poetry fragments in seven scenes with a prologue and epilogue, will be related to the scenes of Dawn, Love as Passionate Love. Lullaby to Her Little Girl. Hymn to Aphrodite, Indecision. Friendship and Frustrations of Age.
An accomplished and sensitive dancer in her own right, Miss Tiffany will portray the title role, and will include nine other women in her production, symbolically representing the nine muses. Sappho has been considered the tenth muse. Four of the nine women will form a Greek-style speaking chorus and the other five will dance.
A special ASSC Board of Protest meeting will be held at noon today to determine the constitutionality of last week's decision giving electoral eligibility to two grade-point deficient ASSC candidates, Wayne Warge and Ted Schmidt.
Senator-at-Large Dayle Barnes and Knight Gary Evans accused the committee on Friday of illegally deciding in favor of the two political aspirants. Today ' the board may either reverse or j affirm their previous decision.
The entire controversay rests \ on the fact that Warga. a senior class presidential hopeful, has a cumulative grade shortage and
Schmidt, international relations president candidate, has a grade average below 2.5 from the last semester.
Grade Minimum
Article V, Section 3 of the A-SSC Constitution says that all candidates for ASSC offices must have a eulmulative average of at least 2.5 and at least a 2.5 average for all units completed in the semester preceding the ASSC election semester in which they are candidates.
This means that in all work ; completed at SC both candidates must have an average of at least
2.5 and must have achieved a
2.5 last semester.
Both Warga and Schmidt fall below this minimum under one , of its provisions.
Senator Barnes, who is also a ! candidate for senior class presi-: dent, said that he was in an awkward position but this Board of Protest ruling goes beyond mere personalities.
Devious Prescedent
“The Board has overstepped j their limits,” he said, “for anv-; one who does not have a scholarship average of at least 2.5 should not be allowed to run for office.
“This year's Board is setting a devious prescedent.” he continued. “It is allowing people to carry on their political activities in conflict with the ASSC Constitution.
Asks Reversal
“Since this decision. I am sure that the members of the Board have read their constitution and
a re-vote is now in order,” he sneered.
Evans, who wrote the official letter asking for a reversal of the decision, changed his mind as to the seriousness of the matter when the Board of Protest informed him that they had added the stipulation that both candidates must attain a 2.5 average before they could resume office.
Further Violation
Although Evans seemed satisfied enough. Barnes claimed that this was further violation of the constitution and should be reconsidered.
President Scott Fitz Radolph. an ex-officio member of the board, made the point that the Board of Protest does not have to explain their actions to anyone but the Senate.” he said.
First Crisis
This key protest to the Board's decision marks the first major election crisis this year. Today's meeting will decide whether or not Barnes’ protest will be held
valid.
The Board members: Juanita Sakajian. elections comissioner; Mike Donahue, sena^or-at-large and chairman: Kathy Niemeyer, AWS president; Mardythe O'Mara. ASSC vice president; and Larry Litchy. senator-at-large: will vote on the “constitutionality” of the matter today.
Dud Johnson, activity advisor, said that the decision of the Board would be final, needing only the approval of the Senate for final authority.
Protests Objection
Warga. one of the candidates in the dispute said. “I petitioned my grades because my cumulative shortage was one-tenth below that required by the ASSC Constitution. I was given letters from Dr. Gordon and Mr. John McCoy, head of the Journalism School, attesting to my abilities and participation in school activities. I see no reason why there should be any objection to the decision of the Board of Protest.”
Dr. CantrilTo Continue Psychology Lectures
Dr. Hadley Cantril. the Princeton psychologist who last week told SC faculty why Russian civilians are friendly to American visitors, will speak tonight at 8 in 133 FH.
As a result of his mass psychology study. Dr. Cantril discovered that Russians are friendly to American visitors because they want to know more about U.S. living standards.
Form Respect Dr. Cantril. head of the Institute for International Research at Princeton University, said that Russians have been so impressed with the Soviet’s slogan. ‘catch up with and exceed the standards of living in America.’ that their desires to do so invariably spill over and take the form of respect for Americans who have achieved them.
“They are also curious to know whether or not Russia has caught up with American stand-
ards and. if not, just how far behind they are. This desire to equal Americans has proved a
freat bond between the state nd the people.” he declared. “The problem of the Soviet government is to keep up with the people and to maintain a sense of enthusiasm, which is almost a childish pride, open and unabashed.” he said.
Popular Enthusiasm “Our studies also show that English is chosen by students in Russia at a ratio of our to one over any other.” he revealed.
In spite of such popular enthusiasm. the speaker found a difinite realization that the state may crack down on individuals at any time. They seem to feel that they are no longer controlled by terror but only by fear.
The Princeton scientist, sponsored by the Haynes Foundation, will lecture at SC again on Wednesday and Thursday.
Nina Foch Praises Failures as Actor's Best Friend in Speech
By BOB (¡OLD
Failure w'as called an actor's best friend when Nina Foch, stage, screen and television star, spoke to members of SC's drama department .Friday, on what is an actor?”
“Too many performers are afraid to try something new,” she said, “after they have found something the public’s accepted, something they call safe. When they get over this and ‘dare’ to try something new, then they become a true artist.” Speaking in Stop Gap Theatre, Miss Foch referred to a “good actor” as someone who lias “guts.” “When they’ve got this,” she continued, “they can take criticism, even failure, and learn a lesson from it.”
Difficult Art “We have chosen a difficult profession, more difficult than most for many reasons,” she continued. “There is the very obvious one of too many people for too few jobs, which we have all had drummed into our ears by the people who care about welfare.
Miss Foch said an actor is not a “personality.” A person with some particular trait or mannerism may at one time hold an audience by it. the actress claimed. but it is not something a person can capitalize on.
Mystical Qualities “When an actor of this type | gets turned down,” she declared, “he, himself, is turned down. Also. there is no opportunity to develop this mystical thing, and like all natural assets, you cannot guarantee that it will appear on demand.
“An actor is the person who can forget the talent or ability he possesses. These two traits,” Miss Foch asserted, ‘‘are only I seen by the spectator. Reading any seven critics writing about the same actor will bear this out.
“An actor accepts the possibility that he has talent and personality and goes on to the more important matters of his profession that are under control,” Miss Foch maintained.
Various techniques, speech methods, manners of moving, dancing, singing and dressing
were named among his profes-j sion.
I - Objective understanding and ' the ability to see a play in “the play s meanings and not in the actor's personal views'’ were also cited as necessary skills for | an artist.
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STOP GAP GUEST—Miss Nina Foch, addressing students
Friday afternoon said that failure is an actor's best friend. Miss Foch, in her speech "What Is an Actor?" fold drama students that "Too many performers are afraid to try something new." When they get over this, they will become a "true artist."